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Want to win a copy of Pet Ghosts by Joshua Warren? The publisher is giving away copies of this book to two lucky Medium readers. To enter, all you have to do is share a spooky pet story of your own in the comments. Need some help getting started?
In the 1890’s house I grew up in, we spent an awful lot of time searching under the beds for the cat that streaked into the room past us some evenings. It was several months before we realized that it was no longer a real cat and that was why we couldn’t ever find it in the room.
So, what pet ghost have you seen? If you don’t have a story to share, you can still play along. Let us know which pet you’d like to have haunting you.
This contest will end on May 15th and the winners will be chosen by using random.org.
My aunt had a miniature schnauzer than passed away about 3 months ago. She got him not long after her husband died and become very attached to him, and when he died it was really difficult for her. Not long after he passed strange things began happening, like she would think she heard his collar jingling in bed next to her and when she would feel the spot it would be warm. He would also run for the mail every day, in the process scrunching up a small area rug in the hallway. Sometimes after the mail comes she will find the rug scrunched up just like it used to be. My sister and I have also both heard the sound of his toenails on the hard wood floor. Perhaps our pets stay around us to bring us peace and comfort even after they pass on.
I lost my first dog when I was 12 to hepititis. After he died at the vet’s, my dad took me to the city incinerator where I threw him in. I wish I could apologize to my pup.
Our first ferrets – gumby and pokey. I’d love to see them again!
I miss my dog Meshindi so much. He was always there for me. I was in a bad car wreck and sometimes the pain was bad and I could not sleep. I would get up for cup of hot tea and he would always get up too. He never left me alone.
When I was a teenager, I was in bed one night, and I felt one of the cats jump up on the bed. I thought all the cats were outside, so I looked to see who it was and no one was there. I think it was the spirit of my cat Mystery.
Great Book! I really want to read it! I don’t have any pet ghost stories. I do have a connection with our dog, she’s 15! She’s my “girl”, always with me, I’ve always felt that she’s known me from before!
A few years ago a black cat came to our backyard meowing and meowing. He seemed lost so i kept it in our yard. I would feed it everyday and one day he even jumped on my back, I thought that was very funny. He was so friendly. And he got along so well with my other cats. But he disappeared one day, unfortunately and sometimes I wonder if he was a ghost cat that came to visit me. :p
i had this wonderful red lhasa apos named ACC. he did some of the strangest tricks that he tought to me, and in a lifetime of dogs there was no other like him>> he never left my side, he was the best! “never” expecting another like him, some ten years later i was getting a black standard poodle girl and had four to choose from as the breeder wanted to keep the white puppy. yet every time i went to evaluate the litter for my black choice, the little white one crawled into my lap and stayed no matter how long i was there!!!>> on the day we picked up our black puppy, the breeder said she would not keep the white puppy since she will not make a good show puppy as she is too quiet plus>>>> SHE “ONLY” LIKES YOU!! needless to say we got them both. the very first thing i noticed is she ate her food in straight lines>>JUST LIKE ACC! it turned out she was a huge happy show off and did well in the ring too! as time went buy i understood that she withdrew from everyone else so she could be with me! like acc, she does not like toys and as the years go by, she is teaching me all the same tricks that acc tought me so many years ago, plus she too never leaves my side. acc came back to me as a big beautiful girl and we have been playing ever since>> love is best the secont time around…
OH EVERYONE>> I JUST ENTERED AND WENT TO SEE MY STORY>> FOR SOME REASON IN MY STORY “RING” IS IN GREEN AND UNDERLINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU CLICK ON IT, IT IS ABOUT A FRIENDSHIP RING>> THE DISCRIPTION FITS MY STORY>>>>>>>>>>NOW IS THAT A “PET GHOST STORY” OR WHAT!!!
ARE WE THE WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to have my first dog,shadow, haunt me! She was so sweet and loving and I miss her even 20 years later!
Our cat was missing for 3 days when my husband discovered her on the curb , hit by a vechicle, several streets from home. Oreo was 9 years old. When our kids came home from school , we had to sit them down and tell them the horrible news. Our son said , “No way , I just took a picture of her with my cellphone.”
He showed us the picture. It certainly looked like Oreo. My husband thought he must of buried the wrong cat.
We went outside and looked, and looked but we never did find her. It’s been two years and no one has seen her again. A ghost perhaps??
I’d love to have my dog, Ripley, haunting me although I truly believe my dog, Alex, can see ghosts in our house.
I don’t have a story, but love cats so I guess I would like to have a cat haunting me.
I think our dog Buddy came back in the puppy left in the street outside of our house just a few months after Buddy died. I think our cat Sassy came back in the cat that showed up on our porch a little over a year ago. It’s not really spooky, but these two animals act (and look a little) like the two that died in so many ways.
I was taking car of my friends dog while she was in the hospital with cancer. River started howling and crying and I went outside to calm her down. After I went in to call to see how my friend was doing and found out she had just passed away. Somehow River knew this.
I don’t have a story to share and I’m not sure how I’d feel about any animal haunting me but if I had to pick one, I’d pick a kitty.
Barbi Benton
Haven’t been haunted but did have a pet dog named Snoopy when I was a kid. He was young and healthy and suddenly died one day. My family think he might have been poisoned since he was our family watchdog and it would have been easy for someone do it. So if someone did something, I hope he haunts them forever!
I love all of your stories! I would love to have my beloved dog, Duke, come back into my life as a ghost. He was the best dog ever!
Every night my childhood pet, Cinnamon, use to sleep curled up between my arm and my body. One night, after he had passed away, I remember awakening in the middle of the night with my arm in it’s usual position to accommodate Cinnamon’s sleeping habits and I saw him. It was a transparent, grayish-white, figure of him cuddle in my arm. Not once did I feel afraid, I actually felt at peace with his presence. It was as if he had come to see me one last time to say good-bye and let me know he was all right. I know I wasn’t dreaming and it still brings tears to my eyes whenever I think of it, but in a positive way.
My beloved kitty, Pepsi, who I had with me from age six weeks until he passed away at 13.
Sometimes I think I might feel him in the house with me, but I wish I knew for sure.
i’d love all my past dogs to haunt me, it would be pretty cool to have a gang of my dogs following me around
I would love to have my late dog Blackie haunt me. He would follow me to the end of the world and would always warn me about critters such as snakes if they were lurking.
I would love to have all my pets who have passed visit me but not all at one time that would be too much
I feel whatever supreme being you care to believe in gives us our animals and pets to become our angels not only on this earth but to come back to us when they have gone to a heaven for all animals. Many Thanks SW
my dog bupper
A couple of years ago I was wakened at dawn by instinct. I opened my eyes and there was a calico cat next to me looking out the window behind me. I watched him for several seconds, then he faded out of sight. A few nights later, I woke to a scratching noise. There was a grungy gray cat nosing around the dried plants on my ledge. I yelled “Hey!” and it disappeared. No sound of a thud when he jumped down, and no way he could get in or out of my apartment. I also had people ghosts that year, but that’s another story.
I would like to have my cat Button haunt me.
Would love to read the book. I don’t hav a pet haunting me but two pets I would love to see again. A lab mix dog named Misty and a persian cat named Bugs. I had them both as a kid. Misty was just the sweetest dog and Bugs was the little leader of my pets.
mazie was my childhood dog. She can haunt me anytime
my little Nicky, a black mixedhound I had growing up. And my Basset, Annie!
My dog shelby was hit by a garbage truck comming down my road and the memory of her dying will always haunt me she left behind 3 pups
i’d love for my dog triangle would haunt me, he could bring me my slippers
My dog Teddy will be haunting me after he is gone…we have had him since a puppy!
No ghost pet stories for me, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the ghost of the dogs we had growing up
I would love to be visited by any of my past animals. I loved and miss them all dearly.
About two years ago we became very good friends with another couple. They had a golden retriever. She was kept in a large penned area when guests were in the house.
On several of the visits I saw a wolf in her pen that disappeared when I tried to look closely at it. As time went on and the golden retreiver became part of the family the wolf was gone.
I later found out that the retriever replaced a german shepherd that had to be put down because of old age, I wonder if the german shepherd was making sure the golden retreiver behaved.
I know that animals are able to communicate telapathically before and after “death”.